First day of school. I actually made an effort on getting ready, trying to look good. I wasted the whole summer, getting closer to Bella. Now, I would actually do something. Shit, I even started smoking just to get to talk to her. Not good when Emmett caught me and blackmailed me on telling mom. Now, he had the right to make fun of my crush, without me hitting him. I drove to school, in my own little world, ignoring Alice talking about the excitement of being a junior… I parked the car in my usual spot and got out. Alice and I stayed by the car for a moment, when I saw the blue camaro arrive. I smiled and looked at Alice.
"Aren't you going to talk to Bella?" I asked because I was a pussy and wouldn't go alone.
"No" she laughed, "Why?"
"Why not?" I asked frowning.
"Because we're in school, Edward. Where she is the queen, dating jocks, with cheerleaders following her. And we're in the bottom of society as no ones, just trying to have a peaceful year. That won't happen if we try to talk to her"
"Come on. We spent the whole summer together. We can talk to her"
"Then go!" she said smirking.
"Alright. Let's go"
"No. You go" she said chuckling, "I don't have a crush on her"
"I don't either"
"Keep telling yourself that, because just you believe it"
I glared at her and looked at Bella, who seemed to be struggling to put a book in her bag. I took a deep breath and started walking to her. When I reached her, I didn't know what to say of course.
"H-Hi" I stammered.
She looked at me and smiled.
"Hey" she said, with an arched eyebrow.
She wasn't used to talking to me in school.
"I-I was… just w-wondering… Ahn… You… Mom is having a party for my birthday, and I wondered if you wanted to come" I blurted.
My eyes got wide. Shit. My mom wasn't planning anything for me. Fuck. Damn lack of filter.
"Your birthday already passed" she said confused. "20th. We made a barbeque at the lake house"
"Oh, ahn, this is like… a party, party" Shit what was I saying? "Eh… my friends are going and… stuff" Smooth. Really smooth.
She smiled and leaned against her car.
"When?" she asked.
"Hm… Next weekend. Saturday" I stammered.
"Hm" she said clearly thinking. "I have a date…"
"Oh… Ahn, it's c-cool. F-fine" I said nodding, not meeting her eyes.
"I'll try to reschedule and go to your party" she said.
My head snapped up so fast my neck cracked. I hissed, but smiled at her.
"If I can't…" she mumbled, "I'll take him, is that okay?"
"Y-Yeah, great" I said, fighting to keep my smile.
"Great, so…"
"Hey, Bells" Jasper Whitlock said approaching.
He was a jock, and the popular guy, the guy that had every girl following him. Alice obviously liked him, though she tried to hide. Bella smiled at him, and he kissed her cheek, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"Hey… Ahn…" he said staring at me, "Sorry, dude. AE?"
"Jasper" Bella said softly, "AE is just a nickname that he doesn't like. It's Edward"
"Oh, okay. Hey… Edward" he said to me.
"Hi" I deadpanned.
"Edward invited me to his party" Bella said, "This Saturday"
"Sure. If you want to go, I can go with you" he said.
"Yeah, that's what I was saying to Edward. Is it okay to reschedule the date?"
"Yeah, sure" he said.
The bell rang, Bella waved at me and they walked away. Why do I think things are going to change? They never do.
I was by my locker, getting my trigonometry book, when I saw her a few lockers away, talking to friends. She was smiling and laughing, and I couldn't help but smile at the scene. Suddenly, Ben appeared in my way, blocking my view.
"Talk to her" he said.
I blushed and turned to my locker.
"Who?" I asked.
"Bella" Angela said, wrapping an arm around Ben's waist, "Just talk to her"
"Why? I have nothing to say" I said quietly.
"Come on, Edward. You like her. You must have something to say" Ben said rolling his eyes.
"And make a fool of myself?"
"You won't" Ang said.
"I always do"
"Maybe she'll think it's cute" Angela tried.
"Yeah, right" I snorted, and closed my locker.
I stepped around them, ready to go to trigonometry, when I felt Ben push me. And of course, falling forward, I basically fell on my knees, by Bella. I glared at Ben and Angela, who pretended to walk by innocently. I blushed, and got my books from the floors quickly. Bella crouched, got a book and extended. I took it and looked at her.
"Hi" she said.
"H-Hi" I stammered.
She smiled at me, making me blush harder, and smile too.
"Want something, loser?" Jacob said bumping his shoulder with mine and standing beside Bella. Bella's friends, Jessica and Lauren snickered.
"Jacob, stop being mean" Bella said glaring at him.
"Yeah, nerdy should put his glasses on and see that some girls, are out of his league" Jacob sneered, putting an arm on her waist.
I looked down and stepped away.
"Stop being an ass" Bella said.
I stop and stared at her. She was defending me?
"I'm just tired of him eyeing my chick" Jacob said still glaring at me.
"I'm not yours" Bella growled and pulled away from him
"Ahn it's fine" I mumbled.
"See? It's cool, babe" Jake said smiling at her.
She narrowed her eyes at him, and he turned to give me a fake smile.
"Fuck off" he sad calmly, but threateningly.
I glared at him, but walked away. Just another day at the hell called high school.
I asked for Alice's help about the 'party' I told Bella I would have. She said she could do it, but I had to convince mom. I sneaked in the kitchen, standing in the corner, watching mom cook, and clean.
"What do you want, Edward?" she asked without turning around.
"Do you have eyes in the back of your head?" I asked amusedly.
"You can say that" she said smirking over her shoulder at me. "What do you need?"
"A birthday party"
"For who?"
"Me?"
She turned and frowned.
"Your birthday passed"
"Yeah, ahn, I wanted to do a little get together with my friends… a barbeque or something"
"Who's coming?"
"Just a few friends… Ben, Ang, Eric, Seth… just a few people, like I said"
"There's more" she said smirking.
"No" I said quickly, too quickly. Damn it.
"Let me guess… Bella?" she asked knowingly.
"Eh… She might come" I shrugged.
"Explain from the beginning"
"I might have blurted to a friend that I would have a party, so I have to have a party"
"That friend being… Bella"
"Maybe, maybe not"
"Alright. But keep it low key. I don't want a crazy teenager party" she said.
I nodded, kissed her cheek and ran to my room.
I left the party in Alice's hands, so obviously, it wouldn't end well. The party started well. My friends came, we sat around, talking, eating the snacks mom did… And then it started getting out of control. Half of the junior class were there. I glared at Alice when it started getting out of control, but she was too busy entertaining her friends and colleagues. I was freaking out. Mom was out, she convinced Emmett to come this weekend, for the party, and went to get him in the airport. When she came back, I would be dead. The music was blasting, apparently someone got alcoholic drinks, I was trying not to freak out that there were people in the pool when I saw a camaro arriving.
"Hey! Careful with that!" I yelled at a kid playing with a crystal vase.
I got to the front door to see Bella and Jasper entering, looking around with grins.
"H-Hey" I said.
"Cullen, you sure know how to throw a party" Jasper said smiling at me, "But where are people from our year?"
"Ahn… I… Alice, my junior sister, organized, so…" I stammered.
"It looks like Alice" Bella chuckled looking around. "Happy birthday! Again!"
"Thanks" I mumbled blushing.
Bella nudged Jasper's in the ribs, and pointed to his jacket. He looked confused, so she took it from his arm, and put in the closet with her jacket.
"You know the house" he stated.
"Family" she smiled.
"Oh! You're cousins?" he asked looking between me and Bella with a confused frown.
"No! Parents are old friends" she said.
"Cool" he said looking around. "I'll go get a drink…"
"Yeah, get me one, please?" she said.
"Sure thing, darlin'"
He walked away, waving for a few people he knew, and dodging a couple of drunk juniors.
"Esme isn't home, right?" Bella asked smirking.
"N-No" I stammered. "She went to get Emmett from the airport"
"You're screwed" she said still smirking.
"Y-Yeah"
"Well, the least you can do is having fun while your murderer isn't here" she said grinning.
She linked her arm with mine, dragging me to the party and when we got to the living room, met Alice, Ben and Angela. Bella started talking to them, and I realized she was awesome. She was popular, but not snobby, and she talked to everyone as if she was friends with them, she could get along with anyone. Jasper soon joined us, and Alice stared at him openly. I'm pretty sure Bella saw, because she gave Alice a knowing smirk, and Alice blushed.
"Edward Anthony Cullen" I heard my name be called.
I froze, and felt the blood drain from my face. My friends gave me pity smiles, and I turned around, to face my furious mom, taking a drink from a junior's hand, and putting off another's cigarette. She walked to me and glared. Emmett followed her, clearly amused with my death.
"What the hell! I leave for a couple hours, to get your brother to your reasonable, simple, small party, and come back to this!" she yelled over the music. "You're in serious trouble, Mister"
"M-Mom…"
"You better have this party over in…" she checked her watch, "Two and a half hours. I'm going to dinner with your father, and when we get back, I want this house as I left before going to the airport"
"You're screwed" Emmett said grinning and looking around.
"And I better not have problems with police for underage drinking!" she yelled at me. "Your father and I won't bail you" she threatened.
With that she walked away.
"Holy shit" I said looking around, at my doom.
Of course, I was grounded. My friends even tried to help ending the party, but when my parents got home, the house was a mess, and there was even a couple of students passed out. Dad just gave me a disapproving look, letting the yelling for mom. I hated when he did that. I felt so small, low, ungrateful. Like I didn't deserve parents like them. I was grounded for a month, not that I went out much. But now was demanded that I went from home to school, and from school straight home. The next week of course, the rest of school knew about the party, and a few seniors were mad I didn't invite them. I don't think I ever glared at Alice so much in my life. Bella as usual was with her group, and I would be just audience, a bystander. Jasper turned out to be cool, you could say we were friends. Not that I was friendly to him, until the moment he told me he and Bella were just good friends. I tried to play cool, but he smirked and said it was obvious I liked her. I continued to deny and he would just smirk. After that, we became friends, without Bella in the way… Alice was forgiven because she was funny. One day we were by the car, talking, when Jasper came to talk to me about an assignment. She blushed tomato red, stammered on her 'hi' and stumbled to get in the car. I laughed and Jasper punched my arm, smiling at the car, or Alice. Every freaking time. He would appear, she would blush, stutter, stumble, and run away. It's hilarious.
"Did you hear Bella is single?" Alice said approaching me in the locker.
"She's always single" I mumbled.
"No. She has fucks, and not serious relationships, maybe little affairs. But it's official, she's saying she is tired of it, and wants a serious relationship, and won't fuck anyone until she get a boyfriend. A serious one"
"So?" I sighed, closing my locker a little too forcefully.
"It's your chance! You got the best shot!"
"How? I'm not a jock, not popular, a player, or whatever that she always dates"
"But did you ever see her talk to one of them for more than fifteen minutes without getting annoyed?"
"No"
"See? She doesn't get annoyed with you!"
"She doesn't because I'm not coming onto her. If I hit on her, she'll be annoyed"
"Doubt it" she said rolling her eyes.
"Whatever, Alice" I grumbled.
"Hey, man" Jasper said coming from behind Alice. He looked down at her, smiling. 3, 2, 1… Oh, that tomato red blush!
"I-I… C-Class… Going" she stammered.
Jasper grinned, she blushed impossibly harder, stepped back, tripped(on thin air), almost fell, and when Jasper reached to help her, she gasper and jogged to class, tripping all the way. I cracked up.
"Stop being mean to her" Jasper said frowning and punched my arm. "Leave her alone"
"She's my sister. It's my birthright to tease her" I said chuckling, "And it's too damn funny"
"She's cute" he shrugged.
"Tell her that and she might pass out next time"
"Like you wouldn't if it was Bella, right?" he said smirking.
I stopped laughing, glared at him and he laughed.
"Did you need something?" I snapped.
"No, just came to ask if you heard about Bella"
"About relationships and stuff? Yeah" I shrugged.
"Going to do something about it?"
"No. Why would I?"
"Oh, denial" he sighed dramatically, "It makes silly high school life so… fun"
"Keep that up, and I might tell my sister you called her 'cute'" I threatened.
"Tell her" he shrugged. "She is"
"Ugh, disgusting, dude. My sister" I said scowling.
He chuckled and we went to class.
The serious resolution Bella proclaimed, last a month. By the end of it, she was dating Jacob, seriously now. Like it wasn't bad enough before. What was worse was that Jacob would be a dick to me, claiming I wanted 'his chick'. So, Bella knew. She knew but she chose to ignore. Ignore me. Not really. She would talk to me when we accidentally met, not that that was common, but she would always be nice. But she never addressed the subject, and I, being the eternal pussy, didn't have the courage to say something. Days passed, weeks, months… I just watched. My friends insisted I should do something but I couldn't. First, I would make a fool of myself. Second, she would laugh at me. Third, Jacob would kick my ass, hard. By the end of the year, I was just trying to concentrate on graduating. I was walking down the hall when I heard her and Jacob fighting.
"It's over, forget it!" she shouted.
The hallways were empty, everyone in class, so the sound echoed through the halls.
"Do you think I need you, bitch? I don't! You're right! It's over" he shouted.
"Fuck you!" she yelled.
I peeked to see the scene and saw him encaging her against a locker. I saw red.
"Hey!" I shouted running to them.
"Leave, freak" he said keeping his glare on her.
"Let her go" I said through clenched teeth.
"Fuck off" he yelled, glaring at me.
Bella tried to push him, without success, so I pushed him away from her, and stood between them. He glared daggers at me, and smirked.
"You asked for it" he said.
He tried to punch me, but I was too fast and he almost hit a locker. He growled, and being in the football and wrestling team, he put me down in a second. The air on my lungs came out in a 'whoosh', and he just looked down at me, smirking.
"Stay away from chicks out of your league, Awkward Edward"
Bella pushed him hard, and he just smirked at her. I took the moment to get up, grabbing him, and we fell on the ground, kicking and punching.
"Stop! Jake!" Bella yelled, "Edward! Please! Stop!"
By then the bell had rang, and the hall filled with students that watched the scene amused. Suddenly, someone pulled him away, and someone held me. I was breathing heavy and so was he, with a bleeding nose. I smirked at him, and winced at the pain in my cheekbone.
"Dude, cool off" Jasper said dragging me back.
The football players dragged Jacob away. He had other fighting problems, and he could get expelled, not just from the team, but from school.
"Oh, God" Bella said walking to me, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, fine" I mumbled, frowning.
She touched my cheek softly, and smiled sadly.
"You're crazy. He would have killed you" she said.
"He's worse. At least my nose isn't bleeding" I said smugly.
She smiled and brushed her thumb on my cheekbone.
"I'm sorry" she said.
"It's okay" I mumbled.
"Thank you, Edward"
"My pleasure"
She grinned, dropped her hand, squeezed mine, got her things and walked away with her friends.
"Here" Alice said.
She gave me an icepack and was smirking.
"What?" I asked putting the icepack in my cheek.
"You so hit on her" Jasper said teasingly, "And didn't stammer!"
I glared at him and flipped him off. He just chuckled.
"What happened?" Angela asked.
"They were fighting, and he was being a little pushy" I shrugged.
"What are you? Peter Parker?" Ben joked, "How did you gave him a bleeding nose?"
"Anger, accumulated through the years" Alice said smirking, "And he had a good cause"
I smiled weakly, and looked to see Bella down the hall, walking away. She smiled over her shoulder and gave me a little nod. I grinned and tried to calm my heart down.
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